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Ezekiel 12:5

"Dig through the wall as they watch and go out through the hole.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ezekiel;   Instruction;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Houses;   Prophets;   Walls;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - House;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Remnant;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - House;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Thief ;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
As they watch, dig through the wall and take the bags out through it.
Hebrew Names Version
Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
King James Version
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
English Standard Version
In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it.
New American Standard Bible
"Dig a hole through the wall in their sight and go out through it.
New Century Version
Dig a hole through the wall while they watch, and bring your things out through it.
World English Bible
Dig you through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and cary out thereby.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Dig a hole through the wall in their sight and go out through it.
Legacy Standard Bible
In their sight, dig a hole through the wall and go out through it.
Berean Standard Bible
While they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
Contemporary English Version
Dig through the wall of your house and crawl out, carrying the bag with you. Make sure everyone is watching.
Complete Jewish Bible
Dig a hole through the wall while they watch, and carry [your belongings] out through it.
Darby Translation
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Easy-to-Read Version
While the people are watching, make a hole in the wall and go out through that hole in the wall.
George Lamsa Translation
Make a breach through the wall in their sight and go forth through it.
Good News Translation
While they are watching, break a hole through the wall of your house and take your pack out through it.
Lexham English Bible
Before their eyes dig through for yourself, through the wall, and you must bring the baggage out through it.
Literal Translation
Before their eyes dig for yourself through the wall, and carry out through it.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Dygge thorow the wall, that they maye se, and beare thorow it the same thinge, that thou tokest vp
American Standard Version
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Bible in Basic English
Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
King James Version (1611)
Digge thou through the wall in their sight, and cary out thereby.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Digge through the wall in their sight, and cary out therby.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Dig for thyself into the wall of the house, and thou shalt pass through it in their sight:
English Revised Version
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bifore the iyen of hem digge the wal to thee, and thou
Update Bible Version
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Webster's Bible Translation
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
New English Translation
While they are watching, dig a hole in the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
New King James Version
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your belongings out through it.
New Living Translation
Dig a hole through the wall while they are watching and go out through it.
New Life Bible
While they watch, dig a hole through the wall and go out through it.
New Revised Standard
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry the baggage through it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Before their eyes, break thou forth by thyself through the wall, - and carry forth through it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it.
Revised Standard Version
Dig through the wall in their sight, and go out through it.
Young's Literal Translation
Before their eyes dig for thee through the wall, and thou hast brought forth by it.

Contextual Overview

1The word of the LORD also came to me, saying, 2"Son of man, you live among a rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, who have ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious people. 3"Therefore, son of man, prepare your belongings for exile, and move into exile during the day when they will see you; even go into exile from your place to another place as they watch. Perhaps they will understand even though they are a rebellious people. 4"Bring your provisions and supplies out during the day as they watch, as provisions and supplies for [going into] exile. Then you shall go out at evening as they watch, as those going into exile. 5"Dig through the wall as they watch and go out through the hole.6"As they look on, load the provisions and supplies on your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel." 7I did as I had been commanded. I brought out my provisions and supplies during the day, like the provisions and supplies of an exile, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands. I brought out my provisions and supplies in the dark, carrying it on my shoulder as they watched. 8In the morning the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9"Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, asked you, 'What you are doing?' 10"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "This oracle (a burden to be carried) concerns the prince (Zedekiah) in Jerusalem as well as all the house of Israel who are there."'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Dig thou: Heb. Dig for thee, This was to shew that Zedekiah should escape from the city through a breach in the wall. 2 Kings 25:4, Jeremiah 39:2-4

Reciprocal: Job 24:16 - In the dark Amos 4:3 - ye shall go

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as one goes to Gerar, as far as Gaza; and as one goes to Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together to go from Ur of the Chaldeans into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran [about five hundred and fifty miles northwest of Ur], they settled there.
Genesis 12:5
Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had acquired, and the people (servants) which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Genesis 12:8
Then he moved on from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD [in worship through prayer, praise, and thanksgiving].
Genesis 12:9
Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev (the South country of Judah).
Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his nephew [Lot] had been captured, he armed and led out his trained men, born in his own house, [numbering] three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far [north] as Dan.
Genesis 14:21
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and keep the goods (spoils of battle) for yourself."
Acts 7:4
"Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, God sent him to this country in which you now live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Dig thou through the wall in their sight,.... The wall of the house where he was, as an emblem of the city of Jerusalem closely besieged, from whence there was no escape but by digging through the wall this showed the manner in which Zedekiah made his escape, by the way of the gate, between the two walls which was by the king's garden,

Jeremiah 52:7;

and carry out thereby; not his stuff, as before; but provisions for himself, necessary for his journey or flight; as no doubt Zedekiah and those with him did.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 12:5. Dig thou through the wall — This refers to the manner in which Zedekiah and his family would escape from the city. They escaped by night through a breach in the wall. See Jeremiah 39:2-4; and 2 Kings 25:4.


 
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